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bower
The definition of a bower is an area shaded by trees or other plants, a woman's private dressing room or a country cottage.
(noun)- An example of bower is an arbor covered with vining flowers.
- An example of bower is the room where a bride would get dressed for her wedding.
- An example of bower is a small private house where a newly wedded couple would go for their honeymoon.
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See bower in Webster's New World College Dictionary
noun
- a place enclosed by overhanging boughs of trees or by vines on a trellis; arbor
- Old Poet. a rustic cottage or retreat
- Archaic a lady's boudoir
- a hut and platform of twigs built by a male bowerbird: used only for courtship and not as a nest
Origin: ME bour < OE bur, room, hut, dwelling, akin to Ger bauer, bird cage: for IE base see bondage
transitive verb
to form into a bower; enclose with boughs, etc.
Related Forms:
- bowery adjective
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noun
the jack of trump () or the jack of the other suit of the same color (), the highest card and next highest card, respectively, in euchre
Origin: Ger bauer, peasant (akin to bower): so called from the figure sometimes used as the jack
noun
the heaviest anchor of a ship, normally carried at the bow
Origin: < bow
See bower in American Heritage Dictionary 4
noun
- A shaded, leafy recess; an arbor.
- A woman's private chamber in a medieval castle; a boudoir.
- A rustic cottage; a country retreat.
To enclose in or as if in a bower; embower.
Origin:
Origin: Middle English bour, a dwelling
Origin: , from Old English būr; see bheuə- in Indo-European roots
.Related Forms:
- bowˈer·y adjective
noun
Nautical
An anchor carried at the bow.
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